Los Angeles County Museum of Art

News about Los Angeles County Museum of Art, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Nov. 6, 2014

Celebrities gather at annual Art & Film gala to benefit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. MORE

Sep. 7, 2014

Los Angeles County Museum of Art is staging highly anticipated retrospective, showcasing more than two decades of work by artist Pierre Huyghe; exhibit is equal parts film, performance, sculpture, puppetry, menagerie and biology lab. MORE

Jun. 25, 2014

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has modified plans for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to avoid neighboring La Brea Tar Pits; critics of original design had expressed concerns that museum would cast shadow over tar pits rich with Ice Age fossils. MORE

Jan. 30, 2014

On Super Bowl Sunday, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is opening an exhibition dedicated to the other kind of football, “Fútbol: The Beautiful Game,” which examines the sport through various media. MORE

Dec. 9, 2013

On the 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking marriage, another initiative to help artists use technology as a tool. MORE

Nov. 5, 2013

Celebrity guests at Los Angeles County Museum of Art's third annual fund-raising gala show up wearing long gowns with straps, highlighting how ubiquitous strapless dresses that usually grace red carpet are now suddenly passe. MORE

Jul. 17, 2013

The Los Angeles Museum of Art, housed in a small backyard in the residential neighborhood of Eagle Rock, transforms the experience of viewing art in unexpected ways. MORE

Jun. 16, 2013

Wil S Hylton article profiles James Turrell, artist known for experimenting with light, as he prepares for exhibits at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Guggenheim Museum. MORE

May. 1, 2013

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is planning to build a new home for its collections, a project that will required razing some of the museum’s existing buildings. MORE

Mar. 21, 2013

Guggenheim Museum in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are planning coordinated, successive exhibitions dedicated to the work of James Turrell, artist who uses light as his primary medium. MORE

Mar. 9, 2013

Plan to combine Museum of Contemporary Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art has both wide support and powerful potential foe, philanthropist Eli Broad, who donated $16 million to bail out MOCA five years ago with provision that it not merge with any museum within 100 miles of its downtown flagship. MORE

Mar. 8, 2013

Los Angeles County Museum of Art is proposing merger with Museum of Contemporary Art in LA, which has been battered with defections of board members, criticism of its direction and precarious finances. MORE

Nov. 1, 2012

Art and film world celebrities attend the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s second annual Art & Film gala, honoring Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha and the late film director Stanley Kubrick. MORE

Oct. 28, 2012

Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J Paul Getty Museum are displaying for the first time a trove of works by the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, which the museums jointly acquired from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. MORE

Sep. 9, 2012

Major exhibitions coming to Los Angeles museums cap off what has been a wild year for the city's art scene, most notably a Ken Price retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. MORE

Mar. 11, 2012

Boulder turned artwork titled Levitated Mass--340 tons and 21 feet high--travels 11 days and 60 miles from a quarry through four southern California counties and 22 cities to its final destination at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. MORE

Dec. 28, 2011

California sculptor Michael Heizer's artwork Levitated Mass, a 340-ton boulder that is destined for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is still sitting in a quarry 60 miles away as new routes are being finalized to accommodate its sheer heft. MORE

Oct. 24, 2011

Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosts table reading of 1985 film The Breakfast Club, featuring performances by several high-profile actors who were not in the original movie. MORE

Aug. 28, 2011

Exhibit Asco: Elite of the Obscure, a Retrospective, 1972-1987 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will showcase the work of Asco, enigmatic Mexican-American dadaist collective that once derided the establishment. MORE

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